‘B-17 Flying Fortress’ by Lucio Perinotto

Lucio Perinotto (1947-date).

‘B-17 Flying Fortress’.

A powerful oil on canvas painting depicting the Boeing B-17, number 337726 with two other B-17s, June 1944.

According to US Air Force records, 337726 was piloted by Robert Koehler. His hand-written mission log shows ‘Calais mission flown on June 5th 1944, Caen and Argentan on D-Day, and Nantes on June 7th 1944’.

Signed by the artist and framed with a plain black wooden frame, and unglazed.